The Farm & Wilderness summer camps : progressive ideals in the twentieth century / Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson
- Author
- Abel, Emily K.
- Additional Titles
- Farm and Wilderness summer camps
- Published
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2024]
- Physical Description
- viii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators
- Nelson, Margaret K., 1944-
- Summary
- "Although summer camps profoundly impact children, they have received little attention from scholars. The well-known Farm & Wilderness camps, founded in 1939 by Ken and Susan Webb, resembled most other private camps of the same period in many ways, but F&W also had some distinctive features. Campers and staff took pride in the special ruggedness of the surrounding environment, and delighted in the exceptional rigor of the camping trips and the work projects. Importantly, the Farm & Wilderness camps were some of the first private camps to become racially integrated.The Farm & Wilderness Summer Camps: Progressive Ideals in the Twentieth Century traces these camps, both unique and emblematic of American youth culture of the twentieth century, from their establishment in the late 1930s to the end of the twentieth century. Emily Abel and Margaret K. Nelson explore how ideals considered progressive in the 1940s and 1950s had to be reconfigured by the camps to respond to shifts in culture and society as well as to new understandings of race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexual identity. To illustrate this change, the authors draw on over 40 interviews with former campers, archival materials, and their own memories. This book tells a story of progressive ideals, crises of leadership, childhood challenges, and social adaptation in the quintessential American summer camp"--
- Subject(s)
- Farm & Wilderness—History
- 1900-1999
- Camps—United States—History—20th century
- Camps—Social aspects—United States—History—20th century
- Youth—United States—Attitudes—History—20th century
- Social change—United States—History—20th century
- Jeunesse—États-Unis—Attitudes—Histoire—20e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies
- Camps
- Camps—Social aspects
- Social change
- Youth—Attitudes
- United States
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781978836631 paperback
1978836635 paperback
9781978836648 hardcover
1978836643 hardcover
9781978836655 electronic publication
9781978836662 electronic book - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Endowment Note
- Benzak Foundation American Environmental History Collections Endowment at the Penn State Libraries
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